![]() ![]() Cure narratives are always problematic, even if only symbolic, because of their inherent link to eugenics (fun fact of the day: Mr Asperger was involved in child euthanasia and we would rather not have him associated with us). Other instances are words like "suffer" (I do not suffer from autism, I'm autistic) and a paragraph about the characters "curing" each others disability. The correct way to refer to us is indeed autistic person instead of person with autism because guess what, being autistic is something that can't be separated from our personhood. There is also frequent use of outdated and ableist language like person-first instead of identity-first language. ![]() Except sometimes the stims get called "urges" and are something that has to be corrected. Now for the bad things: While the author sometimes gets things incredibly right or uses correct terminology, he sometimes misses the mark completely.įor example, he really accurately talks about overstimulation, autistic burn-out and stimming. This is probably the toughest review so far and it was only complicated by finding out the author has recently been diagnosed as autistic as well.įirst the good things: It's a gay love story between an autistic and an allistic character which is very sweet, includes a meet-awkward and both of them help each other and genuinely like each other. ![]() * I received an ARC through Netgalley in return for an honest review * ![]()
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